Hypnosis and Life – Trance as a Narrowing of Bandwidth!

This is a video about trances (or hypnotic loops, or reality tunnels or whatever) and the nature of ‘trance’, but not in the way that most hypnotists conceptualise it. You see, trances run our lives – different trances in different contexts – and some trances are particularly pernicious in taking us away from being ourselves…

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Trancework Versus Psychoactive Facilitation – Live Webinar!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! Webinar replay below video! There is a key distinction that is relevant to generative and therapeutic hypnosis that a lot of people are not clear on – Trancework versus Psychoactive facilitation. In this video I briefly unpack the difference, but if you want to get in deeper…

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I’ve Decided to Take My Work Back Underground…

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! You may have noticed that I have been ‘under the radar’ somewhat just lately! Well… Right now I am deep in a research and exploration phase with regard to going deeper into hypnosis, NLP, influential communication as it relates to coaching and transformative work. In this video…

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9 Things I Learned From Hypnosis!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! When I run the Hypnosis Skills Bootcamps, one of the things I always emphasise is that, whilst we may look at some ‘inductions’ or phenomena elicitations, the aim is not to learn them but to learn from them (because the skills are more valuable than the sequences).…

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I’m Leaving… So one last fling!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! A quick NEWS video… I am leaving the UK! That’s right  – in November I will be leaving the UK to take a year long round the world trip with my family! Which means I will be giving up my office space and training rooms for a…

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Enfolding Opposites – Experimental Hypnosis Hand Stick!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! In the last blog post we discussed how Milton Erickson would work with ‘enfolding opposites’ in his transformative hypnosis work. In this short video I look at applying the same idea to the elicitation of classic hypnotic phenomena, with a focus of a hand stick as an…

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Milton H Erickson and The Tetralemma!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! One of the things that has always personally fascinated me about Milton H. Erickson is his apparent deep wisdom. People study his techniques, but what they often miss is the profound understandings of human beings from which they emerged. I seriously doubt that Erickson knew of The…

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De-hypnotising with The Tetralemma

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! If you have been following my blogging and vlogging (both here at HWT and beyond) you’ll know I often speak of how our experience of reality is shaped from the inside out, how we live our lives through a series of hypnotic loops held in place by…

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Wanting It Too Badly (Hypnosis, NLP, Influence)

*** If you like this video, please ‘like’ and share 🙂 *** Have you ever wanted something so badly that you got all bent out of shape and desperate about getting it… and anxious and fearful about failing to? An old mentor of mine (Steve Chandler) used to say ‘needy is creepy’… it was his…

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Mesmerism Revisited… The Energy of Hypnosis!

*If you like this video, please do ‘like’ and share.* Look back to the origins of hypnosis and you will find Franz Anton Mesmer’s ‘Animal Magnetism’ (AKA ‘Mesmerism’) – an art that was all about the channeling and manipulation of mysterious ‘energies’. Mesmer was so successful in his work that a scientific committee was put…

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